Asia Pacific computer sales set of five percent

"Although the quarter was soft, it was just to see that alleviating the region's market is able to keep up to expectations ... especially in the fourth quarter compared with a negative," said IDC analyst Bryan Ma.

But he said that the market is not out of danger yet.

"The economy is still showing mixed signals as well as political instability in recent markets such as Thailand, created further uncertainty," he said, referring to the recent anti-government riots in Bangkok.

Sales of personal computers in Asia Pacific excl. Japan fell five percent in the first quarter last year as the global economic crisis hurts demand, a report said Monday.

But strong sales of notebook computers in markets such as China, Hong Kong and Taiwan fall term and kept close to the expected total shipments during the quarter, industry research firm IDC said.

Commercial buying in this way is still possible to be suspicious of this year but hope to compensate the consumer notebook that can help. "

Although the overall PC shipments have been established, sales of notebook computers rose by 12 percent last year, the report says.

Chinese computer giant Lenovo has been the leader of a draft of 16.9 per cent market share, followed by U.S. rivals Hewlett-Packard and Dell, Acer Taiwan in fourth place, IDC said.